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Blackmail to the sextape: the mayor of Saint-Étienne files a complaint after a "breakdown" in the middle of the municipal council

2023-05-31T19:01:56.492Z

Highlights: The mayor of Saint-Étienne was indicted on April 6 for "blackmail" by intimate video on his former deputy cen. Entangled in the case of blackmail to the sextape, Gaël Perdriau is granted no respite by his detractors. On Tuesday night, protesters chanting "Perdriau resign!" briefly burst into the city council chamber before being pushed back by municipal police, who had to use tear gas. "This kind of violence is unacceptable. Two municipal officers were injured. The hall of the City Hall has been severely degraded," said the mayor.


The mayor of Saint-Étienne Gaël Perdriau was indicted on April 6 for "blackmail" by intimate video on his former deputy cen


Entangled in the case of blackmail to the sextape, Gaël Perdriau is granted no respite by his detractors. The mayor of Saint-Étienne filed a complaint this Wednesday the day after the invasion of the City Hall in full city council by a hundred protesters loudly demanding his resignation on the background of accusations of blackmail to the intimate video, we learned from the town hall.

"Gaël Perdriau renuncie!" Cerca de 300 démonstrantes invadiram a Câmara Municipal de Saint-Etienne ontem à noite para exigir a renúncia do prefeito indiciado no caso de chantagem. (Les révoltées stéphanoises) pic.twitter.com/1TjnD4a3Pn

— Lina (@LinaFerruccio) May 31, 2023

On Tuesday night, protesters chanting "Perdriau resign!" and some banging on pots and pans briefly burst into the city council chamber before being pushed back by municipal police, who had to use tear gas. "This kind of violence is unacceptable. Two municipal officers were injured. The hall of the City Hall has been severely degraded, "responded Wednesday the mayor of Saint-Étienne in an interview with France Bleu Saint-Étienne.

Complaint against X

"What happened last night is extremely serious because this violence was provoked by elected officials," said the mayor (ex-LR) adding that "the deputy of the deputy Andrée Taurinya (LFI deputy of the 2nd constituency of the Loire, Editor's note) was among the people who returned by force". Gaël Perdriau filed a complaint against X for "degradation of public property", "insult against the Mayor and municipal police" and "light violence", according to a copy of the complaint obtained by AFP.

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At the beginning of the municipal council, the mayor's main opponents had again tried in vain to convince him to resign, step aside or organize a local referendum on the continuation of his mandate. The person concerned replied that he was "fully focused on (his) mandate", and "impatient for justice to speak", while, as at every municipal council since last September, a collective gathered under the banner of the "Defeat Committee" organized animations on the forecourt of the City Hall.

Indentation

The day after his indictment for "blackmail" by intimate video on his former centrist deputy to control him politically, on April 6, the first magistrate of Saint-Etienne had said that he would bring "the proof of (s) innocence". If he remains anchored to his seat as mayor, Gaël Perdriau has "withdrawn" from his functions at the head of the metropolis. Last Thursday, the metropolitan council took note of this and voted by 69% a deliberation halving his allowance as president of Saint-Étienne Métropole.

In addition to the 50-year-old, his former chief of staff Pierre Gauttieri, his former deputy Samy Kéfi-Jérôme and the latter's ex-companion, Gilles Rossary-Lenglet, who had confessed to a "barbouzage of morals" to Mediapart, at the end of August 2022, have also been indicted.

Source: leparis

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